Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

After completing the reform plan of the pioneer territory's private militia to the regular army system, Harvey has been intensively involved in the territory's development plan.

Since the last accidental assassination in the laboratory, Reiner has completely been unable to accept the way of relying solely on alchemy beasts to ensure Harvey's personal safety.

At present, whether Harvey goes out daily or just moves around in the castle, there are always two humanoid alchemy beasts by his side. These are giant ape beasts that Reiner has trained alone and are specially used for 24-hour personal protection.

In addition, the castle and the laboratory are equipped with 50 refugee soldiers who are carefully selected from the regular army, with clean identities and are the first batch to join the territory, as Harvey's second-level security defense force.

Even the previously ignored locations such as the sewer ventilation pipes that lead to the castle have been arranged with special soldiers to patrol in turns.

Harvey sat in a warm study room with a fireplace and hot water pipes connected to the wall. While sorting out and writing work plans, he chatted with Tommy, the new captain of the lord's guard, a young officer nicknamed "Smart Guy".

"Does the Northern Wasteland often encounter such heavy snow in previous years?"

Tommy nodded and answered honestly and sincerely: "Sir, the Northern Wasteland is basically like this every winter. The heavy snow can turn the entire wasteland into a pure white hell. Both humans and animals are frozen to death and starved to death in large numbers..."

Harvey sighed when he heard this. It is no wonder that the evil orcs go south to plunder every winter. Even their race living in the upper food chain of the wasteland has such a hard time, not to mention the refugees.

In the more than one month since the winter in the territory, various work and production accidents have often occurred due to the cold and snowstorms. The simply compacted and hardened road surface has become extremely muddy due to the accumulation of snow. Even the alchemical camel beasts are stuck in the middle of the road from time to time and need rescue. The underground drainage in the residential area was completely frozen overnight, and several times it backflowed into the houses, causing all kinds of chaos.

Fortunately, the HVAC project that I planned to implement in advance before winter was not delayed. Now every household has a thermal boiler driven by a large alchemy beast, which directly heats the house through metal water pipes. Otherwise, relying on the simple fireplace in the house, many people may get frostbite or get sick this winter.

After the winter is over and the snow has melted, we have to consider paving the roads in the territory with cement and gravel to avoid repeating the mistakes of this winter.

However, the most important thing to be solved now is to truly refine and implement the previous reform plan of the regular army, and issue a series of detailed organization, rules and regulations, and reward and punishment promotion standards.

Harvey had been exposed to many military-related war games when he was a child, but he had not really been exposed to this knowledge in reality. He could only rely entirely on the cognition and understanding of a modern person to make up a brand new army reform plan.

The pioneer territory currently has a total of 3,000 soldiers who have been trained and have combat experience.

Therefore, Harvey did not want to set the military regulations too high. He temporarily divided them into two independent organizations, named the Guard Army and the Northern Army, one responsible for the defense of the territory, and the other responsible for external offensive operations.

The team is composed of battalions, teams, and groups. Ten people form a group, ten groups form a team, and ten teams form a battalion, totaling one thousand people.

In this world, except for spellcasters, the overall combat level of ordinary people of all races, from his perspective as an earth traveler who knows the history of world wars, is basically the scale of a village fight.

Even the battle between spellcasters is at most a magical version of a village fight.

The Federation and the Wizard Kingdom coalition in the Evil Moon Mountains, formed by the Mage War Corps, has only 500 mid-level spellcasters, which is already the top spellcaster combat cluster in the southern continent.

In a sense, these civilian soldiers under his command, who have undergone actual combat training and are extremely experienced in the use of magic guns, can actually match the mage regiment, except that the way of releasing magic attacks is slightly different.

The energy beam bullets of the magic gun are not much less damaging than the instant fireball spell of the mid-level spellcaster.

It's just that one is a single-target penetration attack, and the other is a single-target range attack.

As for the rules and regulations and laws and disciplines of the army, they are very simple. It goes without saying that they must be absolutely loyal to the lord, and they must obey the orders of their superiors at all times, not escape in battle, not betray, etc.

But Harvey especially emphasized one of them - private looting and random disturbances are absolutely prohibited.

Any noble knight group, or the conscripted army composed of civilians and mercenaries, has a common problem in this era, that is, in order to boost morale during combat, they are often keen to indulge their men in looting and disturbing the people.

Although Harvey's main enemy target is still the alien evil orcs, this rule must draw a clear red line first to avoid irreparable bad situations in the future.

There will always be a time when the army needs to cross the God's Spine Mountains and step into the Southern Kingdom and the noble fiefdom, especially when he has completely offended the grizzly bear leader Earl Fagan.

But the primitive greed in human nature cannot be completely eliminated and changed by a piece of regulation alone. Discipline and punishment alone are not enough. There must also be corresponding reward means and honor systems to give these soldiers who strictly abide by the rules and regulations and self-discipline full comfort both materially and spiritually.

The means of reward must be real money and fixed industries, and they must fall into the hands of people who are willing to abide by the rules of the game. These people will firmly attach themselves to themselves for their own interests and assets, and firmly take root in the pioneering territory. Anyone who wants to harm and overthrow Harvey will be fiercely resisted by this interest group.

Honor blessing is a positive moral kidnapping. It can be the cheers and support of the people of the territory, or various false names and titles within the army. In short, as long as it can satisfy the vanity of the soldiers, it is enough to motivate them to become moral role models.

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

The content of the reward is fixed on construction industries such as real estate and shops, mainly because Harvey believes that the current farmland still needs to be cultivated with alchemy beasts to maximize the output. If they are dispersed and rewarded to individual families, it is easy to reduce the efficiency of cultivation, which will not be worth the loss.

Moreover, he did not want to cultivate a group of military nobles who came from the army and owned a large amount of private land, so that these people would gradually leave the ranks of the people and become a new group of aristocrats, forming an opposition with the ordinary people in the territory.

So it is most appropriate to reward them with houses and shops, which is equivalent to giving him or his family an additional fixed asset in addition to the military pay, so that the soldiers themselves can also have a generous pension after retiring.

"This is a social form that directly skips the feudal system and moves towards the embryonic form of capitalism..."

Harvey put down the feather pen that wrote the article and couldn't help muttering to himself.

In the future, there will be no traditional feudal nobles in his territory, but a large number of people with fixed industries - rentiers.

The landlords and landlady that he hated the most in his previous life were actually pushed onto the stage of history by himself in this life.